comfort movies

you know who else is dead? pauline kael.

just ctrl+f'd a league of their own and space balls and wtf

Star Trek 6, so much

rio bravo otm for hangovers, though as i've gotten older & hangovers more brutal i've moved onto stronger stuff, like donovan's reef

yeah rio bravo awesome

league of their own otm

Dirty Harry movies
Manhattan
Bullitt
The French connection
Serpico
Hannah and her sisters
Le rayon vert
Lawrence of Arabia

I like **locations**

Oh yeah sunset boulevard and pulp fiction for LA

Eh I'm thinking of so much more now: hitchcocks, John carpenter stuff, probably blade runner to some extent. This can't be interesting to anyone besides me to list though.

yeah i think the idea is it's a small, personal list of something you've watched over & over (& over & over) (when wistful or drunk etc)

not a list of like 30 movies you've seen a couple times each & remember fondly or whatever

sorry for comfort policing, carry on

Forgot the ultimate for me:
Tombstone

i used to watch "in the mood for love" specifically to put me to sleep when i was having trouble sleeping. what's up with that? i even like wong kar-wai. but for whatever reason that one just did it for me.

i think once i actually finished it, but i can hardly remember what happens in it. i guess i was pretty groggy.

I will never tire of Dana Delany, Wyatt Earp fucking with chubby bearded Billy Bob Thornton and Val Kilmer's finest hour.

i remember Andrew Sarris saying regretfully about Casablanca in an interview, "I've seen it too much." An outdated concept I guess.

tbh there are certain favorite movies i resist visiting too often, just because i'm afraid of getting sick of them and i enjoy having them feel fresh again when i do watch them. but there are plenty more that i can throw on any time -- i can't imagine burning out on 'his girl friday' unless i was watching it every week or something.

fallen angels 4 me

yeah i think the idea is it's a small, personal list of something you've watched over & over ... not a list of like 30 movies you've seen a couple times each & remember fondly or whatever

― discreet, Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:39 PM (Yesterday)

i know, but it was midnight, i'd been working since 4am, more than a little loopy

back to metroplitan as we speak.
ahh didn't list that above, but I watch it so much!!

fallen angels otm

french connection
trading places
midnight run
dawn of the dead
clockwise
stan brakhage anthology vol 1 disc 2
persona
the brood
its a mad mad mad world
celine and julie go boating

Whatever is good that is repeated endlessly on ITV2/4.

Unfortunately its not Andrei Rublev but I'll settle for Escape from New York. More than good enough.

how can french connection be a comfort movie to anyone, it's so grim & noisy

It looks cool and beautiful and I like to watch it a lot when I have nothing better to do. comfort movies can be loud.

jackie brown 4ever

def jackie brown. i've seen the third man like 25 times and would probably put it on immediately if something catastrophically bad happened to me today, so that.

yeah i mean there's loads of these but really jackie brown is the pinnacle of comfort imo

maybe i'll have american psycho on the side though

joe vs the volcano

lone star

serpico as comfort film is srsly twisting my melon

i get stressed out just thinking about that shit

ebert on jackie brown is maybe relevant to comfort movies in general: I wanted these characters to live, talk, deceive and scheme for hours and hours.

the last boy scout

after seeing Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy I thought it had a good chance to become a comfort movie.

Film is so-so. The TV series is comfort-y material tho'.

le samouraï

Moonstruck. not an ILX fave i'd imagine but there it is.

oh definite comfort movie for me

League of their Own
Little Women
Reality Bites
Clueless
Inside Llewyn Davis
Zodiac

Love Serenade
The Castle
Muriel's Wedding
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
Empire Records
Dazed & Confused
Together
Manhattan
Annie Hall
Stand By Me
Neverending Story
ET
Willow
Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Return of the Secausus Seven
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Career Girls
Weekend at Bernie's
Sister Act

hausu

bourne identity

first name: carmen, for some reason.

9 To 5
Ghostbusters
Dazed and Confused
Being There
Nashville
Big Lebowski
Groundhog Day
The Jerk
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Superman 3
any of the old Peanuts movies

There was a stretch of time when I was putting on Eraserhead every night when I went to bed because I found it really soothing. I think there might've been something wrong with my brain then because I don't think that would work now.

Love Serenade

This is quite possibly the *least* comfortable film I think Ive seen!

i fkn love that movie

For whatever reason, mine tend to be movies about childhood and summer--The Bad News Bears, Meatballs. I expect the recent The Way Way Back to join the list once I've seen it more than once.

Lol @ veg listing zodiac. I feel the same way, altho my wife doesnt understand why i find something w some real disturbing shit in it so comforting

I mean a lot of it has to do with personal + regional history, but that lake berryessa scene... yikes

Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. Maybe the Bourne Movies. If I'm off sick that's what I do.

Lol shakey re: Zodiac

There's jst something about the weird relaxed tone of the movie, it contradicts all those high-tension hunt the killer movies. It's scary as shit, but it's oddly calm

Yes def. Also i find all the attention to historical detail really absorbing

yep me too

Thirded, Zodiac is definitely in my comfort canon as well